Definitions
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- noun The state of being
gleeful orjoyous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun great merriment
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Examples
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He scooped up handfuls of it with a dreary kind of gleefulness -- dreary because he must be gleeful alone -- he made tracks all around just for the novelty of it; he snowballed the rocks.
The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905
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There's some of that gleefulness, but it's probably a little more serious.
Brandon's Report: On the Set of A Nightmare on Elm Street « FirstShowing.net 2010
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All this gleefulness from you people at CNN about Obama's win in N.C. is short sighted.
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Take for instance the waltz-like jubilation of "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed", the otherworldly hush of "And he shall purify", and the gleefulness of "For unto us a child is born" -- all sounding as freshly articulated by our choristers as if newly minted.
Rodney Punt: Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance Rodney Punt 2010
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Once I great honored with CotW, ran to mother and licked crack with gleefulness.
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Take for instance the waltz-like jubilation of "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed", the otherworldly hush of "And he shall purify", and the gleefulness of "For unto us a child is born" -- all sounding as freshly articulated by our choristers as if newly minted.
Rodney Punt: Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance Rodney Punt 2010
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Take for instance the waltz-like jubilation of "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed", the otherworldly hush of "And he shall purify", and the gleefulness of "For unto us a child is born" -- all sounding as freshly articulated by our choristers as if newly minted.
Rodney Punt: Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance Rodney Punt 2010
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Take for instance the waltz-like jubilation of "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed", the otherworldly hush of "And he shall purify", and the gleefulness of "For unto us a child is born" -- all sounding as freshly articulated by our choristers as if newly minted.
Rodney Punt: Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance Rodney Punt 2010
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Take for instance the waltz-like jubilation of "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed", the otherworldly hush of "And he shall purify", and the gleefulness of "For unto us a child is born" -- all sounding as freshly articulated by our choristers as if newly minted.
Rodney Punt: Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance Rodney Punt 2010
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To anyone who's reading this during office hours, get back to work and appreciate the gleefulness in you of knowing that a weekend is ahead - given that you don't have to work overtime again.
teddy-risation™ 2009
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